Principal Software Engineer

🚀 Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner and point of contact from pre-sales through delivery for enterprise client engagements.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, extensible, and secure solution architectures.
• Design and document high-level and low-level architectures using industry best practices and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.
• Conduct architectural assessments, POCs for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery managers, engineers, and clients to ensure architectural integrity throughout the SDLC.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools, frameworks, platforms, and third-party services.
• Review code, configurations, and deployments for technical consistency and risk mitigation.
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security, resilience).
• Continuously explore new technologies, patterns, and tools to improve architecture effectiveness and team productivity.
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🛠️ Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience, with at least 3+ years in a solution or enterprise architect role.
• Strong background in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Data).
• Deep understanding of API design, integration patterns, message brokers (like Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing systems for high availability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Clear understanding of engineering and build processes and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in enterprise software domains such as fraud detection, risk management, banking, or financial services is a major plus.
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🔍 Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Strong communication and presentation skills; capable of interfacing with C-level executives and developers alike.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with a passion for solving complex problems.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional teams.
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🌟 Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with ML/AI model integration and data pipelines.
• Exposure to fraud detection or financial compliance workflows.

Role: Backend Developer-SDE2

• 3-5 years of exp into

Responsibilities:

• Work on the development backend systems for our first product.
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.

Requirements:

• 3-4 years of software development experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Good knowledge of Java ecosystem.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant.
• Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs.

• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain components of a feature-rich management and orchestration product
• Manage one or more project priorities and deadlines
• The programming languages are mainly Python and Java
• Understand the infrastructure details of public clouds and use DevOps best practices to implement provisioning

You'll Need:

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Experience building and operating extensible, scalable resilient systems.
• Working knowledge of Java and Python.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, etc).
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts.
• 8+ years of experience and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science -or- a related field.

Nice to have:

• Cloud infrastructure systems engineering experience.
• Experience in building control planes.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with containers and cluster managers like Kubernetes.
• Experience in App deployment and config management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.

• You will build cutting-edge secure and scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will own the backend development for one or more of our modules and collaborate with architects, other engineers, and product managers to launch new products and/or iterate on existing features. You'll build and manage automated build/test/deployment environments
• Ensure high standards through code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions
• You will ensure that the systems you oversee are secure, fault-tolerant, and are performing reliably at high volumes.

• Well-versed in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Programming experience with at least one of Java or Python and object-oriented design
• Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, Messaging/Caching technologies, and AWS deployments is a plus
• Able to write unit integration tests with coverage of code & interfaces. TDD is a plus
• Exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems. Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows involving multiple third-party integrations
• Prior startup experience is a plus

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set